Fact Check: Pakistan didn’t dissolve the USSR

Filed by Elara Myst

 Andrew Korybko If anything, Poland’s Solidarity movement was the geopolitical trigger that accelerated this process, not the Afghan War.One of the most popular narratives connected with Pakistani trolls’ infowar against Russia over the past week, which is predicated on the false pretext that India is financing the Taliban’s purchase of Belarusian drones with Russia’s approval, is that the 1980s Afghan War triggered the USSR’s dissolution. This claim is popularly ...